José Antonio Antón-Pacheco is a professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Seville in Seville, Spain. His particular area of interest is hermeneutics and traditional thought. He founded the Swedenborg Society of Spain, as well as the Center for Comparative Spiritual Studies and the Seminary for Comparative Hermeneutics. He has written a number of books and articles on philosophy and metaphysics, including, most recently, La sabiduría mazdea: Dos textos del Irán antiguo (The Wisdom of Ahura Mazda: Two Texts from Ancient Iran).

Steven Skattebo earned an MA degree in teaching English as a second language from the University of Arizona and a PhD in Spanish from the University of Iowa. He has been teaching English and Spanish for twenty-five years, including two years of English in Colombia and fifteen years teaching Spanish at the college/university level. He is currently involved in writing a book on cultural factors in foreign-language learning, as well as the writing and translation of many non-academic texts. He lives with his wife, colleague, and language consultant Nora Elena Pulgarín de Skattebo in Fayetteville, Arkansas.